gentoo kernel upgrade problems

[Alma J Wetzker]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On 12/19/2004 03:22 PM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to upgrade my main desktop.  It is gentoo kernel 
>> 2.4.20-xfs (yeah, I know, not real great).  I did an emerge and got 
>> the 2.6.9 kernel.  I changed the '/usr/src/linux' link to point to the 
>> new directory and did:
>>
>> # make mrproper
>> # make xconfig
>> # make
>> # make modules_install
>>
>> That spit out a vmlinux executable and a System.map that I copied to 
>> the /boot directory.
> 
> 
> You most likely want the compressed kernel binary (bzImage) not vmlinux.
> 
> Look in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot
> 
That was it!  I copied the bzImage to /boot and called it kernel-2.6.9 and 
pointed the grub.conf at it and now I have progressed to a kernel panic.  I 
will defer this until after the final on Tuesday.  I thought this would be 
quick and easy, being gentoo and all....

     -- Alma